Top of the Pops

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February sneaks in, and PC games are selling.

By David Adams

If you compare this week's edition of Top of the Pops, which covers the week ending February 2, to our last edition, you'll see that two things have changed: Pacific Assualt has replaced DOOM 3, and everything else is the same, just shuffled around.

The Sims 2, World of Warcraft, and Half-Life 2 remain our Top Three, no questions asked. This time, WoW has scrambled to the top, but that's quibbling among three titans of PC gaming. Pirates!, a favorite contender around IGN parts, climbs up with the big boys at Number Four. The rest are our strong sellers for 2005 so far, still going strong.

Here's how it played out that week, according to data from The NPD Group: